In Dostoevsky’s The Devils, his doomed characters, Kirillov and Shatov escape to America and are at first rejoicing in “the spiritualism, the lynch mobs, the guns, and the tramps” they find there. Soon however, they come to realize the inbred Russian morality inhibiting their ability to join fully the carnival of violence and depravity the New World offers and lament,

“[O]ne has to be born in America, or at least to live among them for many years, to reach their level.”

That was in 1872, but could well have been written as Donald Trump seized the sceptre of American power two weeks ago; and, as University of Kansas Slavic studies scholar Ani Kokobobo says,

“I’ve come to realize that it’s never a good sign when real life resembles a Fyodor Dostoevsky novel.”

Ted Rall is a Pulitzer Prize-finalist, journalist, prolific graphic artist and author whose books include: ‘After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan,’ ‘To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue,’ ‘The Book of Obama: From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt,’ ‘Snowden,’ and his latest is, ‘Trump: A Graphic Biography.’

Ted Rall in the first half.

And; in the aftermath of the Mr. T.’s astounding electoral victory a veritable “S” storm of recrimination and finger pointing has ensued. You may have experienced some of that, if having the temerity to voice the woeful moral short-comings of the democrat opposite as an enabling factor in bringing about his imminent, and unholy inauguration. You may even have said, “How much worse could he be?” Well for all her faults on the war and Wall Street, when it comes to global climate change, Trump seems determined to emphasis the “mental” in his environmental approach.

Robert Hunziker is an environmental journalist whose climate clarion calls appear in numerous journals and multiple languages around the World and across the internet. He’s also appeared in a variety of media to talk about global climate change, written extensively about the ongoing aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and his latest article, ‘The Arctic Warms Up For Trump‘ provides a chilling preview of the end of days to come.